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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2521: Vulnerability in Wireshark

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2521: Vulnerability in Wireshark

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the WiresharkApplication class in ui/qt/wireshark_application.cpp in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse riched20.dll.dll file in the current working directory, related to use of QLibrary.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-1-12-10-0-175-3-7-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-tshark-1-12-10-0-175-3-7-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-wireshark-common-1-12-10-0-175-3-7-0-3-0

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